Lillian TaizHistory

Lillian Taiz, past-President of the California Faculty Association, is a professor of history at CSU, Los Angeles.

She specializes in 19th century American social and cultural history. She is the author of “Hallelujah Lads and Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in the United States, 1880-1930″.

As a product of the California’s community college, CSU, and UC systems, Taiz considers herself a “poster child” for all that California’s Master Plan for Public Higher Education can offer the working people of this state.

Words matter. Everyone knows it’s true, even though some would deny it.

That is why a little item on the agenda at the California State University Trustees meeting this week jumped out at those of us who believe that our state university is an investment in the future by making sure higher education is available to every Californian who can benefit from it.

That agenda item notified the Trustees and the public that the CSU Chancellor plans to issue an executive order that student “fees” charged to attend the CSU henceforth shall be known as “tuition.”